Thursday, March 03, 2005
The Ultimate Boot CD

Something I need to put together for myself.

The Ultimate Boot CD. And yes, they mean it:
UBCD4Win is a bootable CD which contains software that allows you to repair/restore/diagnostic almost any computer. All software included in UBCD4Win are freeware utilities for Windows®. UBCD4Win uses Bart's PE© which is how the CD boots into a Windows® environment with network support. Perfect for recovering deleted files on your harddrive without accidentally overwriting them or scanning a virus infected system. This project currently has 50+ utilities included in the download. Anti-Virus, CMOS password recovery, password finders, file recovery, Networking tools, CD burning software, MBR backup and recovery, etc. types of applications are all included in the download. Please visit the "List of Tools" page for a complete list of what is included in the project.
10:33:18 PM •  • 
Blogs as personal knowledge management tool

I'm in the midst of a similar project as a way to learn WordPress as a step toward converting McGee's Musings to WordPress in the not too distant future.

In the opening post, John Hesch quotes an observation from Paul Allen that struck home forcefully:

But like some other good habits I have developed over the years which are hard to teach and harder yet to convince others to do (like taking notes at every meeting you attend, and storing all your personal knowledge in a searchable database), I have a very hard time convincing anyone to start their own blog. Most think it would be a waste of time
[Paul Allen: Internet Entrepreneur]

Last weekend I did a seminar at DePaul University's School for New Learning on the topic of personal knowledge management and I've been thinking on this odd problem of technologies that need to be experienced to be understood.

Blogs, wikis, and social software all suffer from this need to spend time with them on their own terms. In organizational settings, this makes them hard to introduce. Decision makers want a clear story about investment and return (and they'd prefer hard numbers). I'm still working out how to best formulate one. I suspect it will depend on the unique characteristics of each organization.

The series continues with Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5.


Creating My Personal Information Manager Using WordPress. Creating My Personal Information Manager Using WordPress: A very interesting step by step series of instructions (in three parts so far) of creating a PIM using Wordpress. John runs Blogging Pro and is by no means new to Wordpress. [Weblog Tools Collection]
8:58:14 PM •  • 
BlogAds Reader Survey

Something to check out. Enter McGee's Musings in question #16 if you head there from here.

Blog Ads is doing a reader survey for all the blogs they work with. We're getting ready to do some work with them, so go ahead and fill in the survey, and enter Scripting News as the blog name in question #16. [Scripting News]
8:22:34 AM •  • 


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